15 replies to this topic

[coe]

WIll IPB 3 gallery have a bulk upload option for the user group?

Benefits:

1.  Reduce effort on the admins.
2.  Better user experience.
3.  Much more useable gallery option.

thanks

[Donkerrood]

+1

[ΑndyF]

It should already have this, as per the older Gallery versions already do.

Edited by ΑndyF, 21 March 2009 - 10:39 AM.

[AlbusDumbledore]

Latest Dev version for IPB3 does have those function. The site admin has to set it for it to work.

[bfarber]

Gallery already has the option to add multiple file upload fields for a user to bulk upload, or allow a user to upload zips which are auto extracted and added to the gallery.

[Zepher]

On the upload page you can have a couple of buttons + the Image Title, then the user can add anything else to the images' page they want once it's uploadedg.  Mabe a button to add another image that adds a new upload button w/ title tag(s).

[ossipetz]

hello

i would add a vote on bulk uploads but i think we people talk about different things here.

most gallery tools today use a java applet (or maybe flash would work too) to upload multiple files at once or via drag'n'drop. if i want to upload 80 files with single fileupload fields i would get crazy. if i zip the pictures the zip may turn into something like 160mb size so i often run against the post size limits. so both mutliple-upload-fields and zip upload are some work around for "real" bulk upload.

some upload applet (dragndrop of multiple files) or a webdav interface ('open as network folder in windows') would improve this situation a lot.

i havent evaluated ip.gallery for a while but the support for bulk-upload (only multiple form fields) was my show-stopper.

[Ditchmonkey]

bfarber, on 23 March 2009 - 08:39 AM, said:

Gallery already has the option to add multiple file upload fields for a user to bulk upload, or allow a user to upload zips which are auto extracted and added to the gallery.

I must be missing something because I don't see any way to upload multiple images. Can you elaborate?

[bfarber]

You have to allow the group in the ACP to upload multiple files, but then on the front end if the user has permission there will be a button near "New Image" that says "Bulk Upload".  Depending on the permissions you set in the ACP, the user will either see multiple input fields, a single input field allowing them to upload a zip file, or both of these capabilities.

[RelentlessRacing.org]

I have to admit, I used to have this ability but it is has seemingly disappeared, I have trawled the settings and configurations to no avail, I can't seem to find anything to bring back the mass upload functionality

[ZakRhyno]

It was taken out of the CURRENT version of gallery but Matt did state he will put it back later on. PS, IPS Staff was talking about a current version of gallery that had it in at the time.

[Jυra]

The current multiple upload feature is amazing and no extra work, screw the old bulk upload.

[3DKiwi]

I agree. The current Flash uploader works fine for multiple files.

3DKiwi

[ZakRhyno]

True, but I like the zip file better as just uploading on file works to.

[miketonline]

The ability to upload images via ftp would be nice also or maybe that function is there and im missing the boat on it ?

[ZakRhyno]

Agree with both ways FTP, Zip and the current way.